On 11/2/2005 10:44 AM, wrote the following:
I'm recently received my IFR ticket and flew in actual a couple weeks
ago for only the 2nd time. I picked up some rime ice at 9000' in a calm
stratus layer. Scared the &#&((*@# out of me! I promptly turned back
for home.

The hood is not actual. Fly actual whenever you can. Get a CFII or a good
instrument pilot to go with you and fly approaches whenever ceilings get low.
Or go alone if you are not in a TRACON environment as we are in Minneapolis. My
target range is 700-900 because my home airport doesn't have an ILS. My goal is
to stay current on a 3 month basis (not 6) strictly by flying actual, though I
can't always achieve this.

I just didn't feel like I got any real training for this in the IFR
work. Yes, I know the ground school stuff and I scored high on the
written, but that's wholly different.

Yes. Re ice, my CFII and I flew in ice a couple of times during training (very
benign, above freezing below the clouds, good ceilings, and the layer only 2000
feet thick) and I have always been grateful to have gotten the experience,
regardless of what the FARs might say about it.


I received Weather Flying by Buck from Amazon yesterday. And although
I'm only through chapter 2, it seems to be an outstanding book. I
highly recommend it.


One of the three books that are permanent on my bookshelf. The others being
Langewiesche's "Stick and Rudder" and Taylor's "Instrument Flying." Buck's
other books are fun, too.